This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!
Assuming that you are being serious and not simply being snarky, the article isn't late. Well, at least not for the US audience.
You see, if you look up the release dates for Into Darkness, you will see that the movie was released in Europe first and had a later release here in the US. It was released in the UK on the 9th and was released here in the US yesterday.
Anyhow... I'm THAT guy. The guy that smokes and doesn't actually think that legalizing it will solve all the world's problems. I'm in favor of legalization and think that it would help solve *some* problems however. It is legal for me to smoke and grow now but I still think it should be legalized and subject to reasonable taxation.
In case you're curious, I got my card because I have issues sleeping. I still have plenty of trouble sleeping but now I get to smoke weed legally. It hasn't helped though it does ease the paranoia to imbibe legally.
I figure it would help lower budgets and stop us from incarcerating people for that particular victimless crime.
I'm the guy that's never smoked, never will, and I find the very idea disgusting. However I'm all for it to be legalised (at home, in public -- like on the street or in parks, it should be banned along with tobacco)
I have problems sleeping too. It's called an 11 month old who's teething.
I understand WHY you should not do this, but quite frankly there is theory and there is practice. And in an era of long obtuse passwords I am thankful!
It's better when you work internationally. Our standard desktop admin password contains an @ sign. Which in most counties is shift-', but in the u.s. it's shift-2. It's not obvious which keyboard layout is in place (you also have to type user@domain, rather than domain\user, as \ doesn't exist as any key on the physical keyboard-mapping we have)
Password theory tells me that
Pa55word!
Is an awesome password. 9 characters, capital, lower case, numbers and symbols.
It also tells me that thisismyverylongandeasytorememberpassword
is rubbish, (or to be exact, "really good, if you put in a random symbol numbers and capitalise some letters")
Your link states The philosophy of a design should be to minimize the amount of time a user has to learn the interface and try to be as similar as possible to other interfaces the user has used previously to avoid getting mixed up from time to time.
OK, don't do anything new, copy other interfaces. Great
It then goes on to say:
Almost all websites are like this.
So what it's saying in the second statement is that the standard - new items first - is ubiquitous. The first statement it states this is good. I fail to see the problem.
If this device becomes a commodity found in every home, it will spawn a whole new generation of pranksters who will sneak up to houses and "hack" the lighting and appliances with a whistle. We'll wind up needing two-factor authentication for our whistle-houses.
Just like the problem of people waking around firing infrared through the window at your tv and changing the channel?
Are you seriously implying that touchscreen is the new, better method of input?
What exactly do you do on a computer? Im gonna guess its not
Writing proposals
Writing code
Doing financial work
Doing systems administration
Or anything, really, that involves rapidly moving data from your brain onto a computer. Or does the new Lightning connector have that capability built into it?
I write code, and do system administration. Obviously I prefer my trusty thinkpad with linux on it, however when I get a phone call with a problem, I love the fact I can ssh in from my phone and restart apache or similar. I've gone as far as using vim to create perl. Once I even ran a debugger.
Obviously a PC is better than a laptop, a laptop is better than a tablet, and a tablet is better than a phone, however the chance of me having access to those devices is inversely proportional to how comfortable it is to use.
What's better, going home from the pub to log on to a 3-screened workstation with all the input you could possibly want, or quickly fixing a problem while your mate gets the next round in?
It is a common misconception from Techy Guys. They look at old technology with the blinding light of nostalgia. Often confusing equipment they bought 20 years ago that cost thousands of dollars and comparing them against their modern counterpart that cost a few hundred bucks.
I picked up an old thinkpad from the IBM era last week. It certainly feels more solid than the T410s I carry, and that feels more solid that the new T430.
It's a race to the bottom, and for those of us who upfront cost is less important lose out. I'd be happy to spend $3000 on a laptop, they're just not made any more.
Boston proved the when the chips are down, americans are a bunch of pussies.
No....Boston proved that Bostonians are a bunch of fucking pussies. Anyone who has ever met anyone from Boston, already knew this. The town is full of egotistical, arrogant dumbasses. Of course they cowered in fear, like the pants shitting cowards they are. If this had been Alabama the story would have different.
It's ironic. I grew up under constant attack by Boston-funded thugs, so perhaps I think a bloody nose is barely worth reporting, but when you get to a stage that a heavily armed force is on the streets, pointing guns in my kids bedroom, I do wonder where Paul Revere went to. One of by land, two if by sea, three is welcomed in with splayed legs.
Plenty of people in Boston are NRA members, they were cowering with the rest. If you can't defend yourself against one or two unorganised desperate fugitives, what change do you have against the local PD, let alone the army.
Homeland Security. I've always thought it sounded facist.
Yes of course it is. Sep 11th 2001 was the day america died. The fear that outsiders could actually harm you, something which hadn't happened for 60 years, got you all shitting your pants.
Your vaunted bill of rights was torn up, and you didn't bother using the 2nd amendment to ensure the rest of them remained. All it takes is the word "terror" and you have marshal law, the 4th amendment is thrown out.
Although effectually the TSA serves little to no purpose in actual deterrence, it may be left just to make people feel comfortable / safe. Tho I disagree with both having the TSA and theatrical aspects.
Generally the people that fly 50+ times a year are the ones that hate the TSA, the people that never fly, or maybe go once a year, are the ones that want "protecting" from the "terrorists".
Still what do you expect from land of the free home of the brainwashed?
Ironically how would armed drones have been sane to use in a busy metropolitan city to catch TWO people on foot. Maybe if they had hijacked a passenger less bus or vehicle and were on a stretch of the interstate by themselves, but then your still blowing up civil infrastructure for something a good o'le fashioned barricade would have made much more sense for.
Drones are a military technology for war fighting with limited use in the civil arena. The problems were having as a nation is conflating terrorism with military action.
Boston proved the when the chips are down, americans are a bunch of pussies.
Imagine what would happen if you didn't have a second amendment and a population who love their guns "Please declare marshal law and put heavilly armed soldiers and tanks on the streets, I'm scared of a couple of guys on the run, please come into my house, don't mind the 4th amendment"
Funny how the definition of Linux oscillates between a full OS "distribution" and just the kernel, depending on what the person's trying to prove at the time.
I'm beginning to think RMS is right about one thing. The OS should be called GNU/Linux. Or maybe even that's understating it. If Linux with Android on top is called "Android". Linux with GNU on top should be called "GNU".
So, what nerds were using 20 years ago was GNU. And the mainstream still isn't using it.
Sure, but I have the following foreground processes running Chrome Firefox Openoffice.org rxvt bash eclipse vim fluxbox
I believe bash is the only Gnu program there. Sure the compiler may have been gnu, and the c-library gnu, but calling it "gnu/linux" ignores the work of everyone else that makes my computer useful.
I think the "Space" part of it is a side show to what Virgin is really pushing for.
The bigger goal, IMO is being able to enable flight from the US/Europe to Australia in a matter of hours by a "plane" jumping into low Earth orbit and circling the globe in 2 hours. Imagine being able to "jump" to the other side of the Earth in an 1 hour? A 2 hour flight to China? Australia? Europe?
It takes 88 minutes in LOE to circle the globe.
It would simply be revolutionary. IMO that is the near term end goal of Branson's interest in space flight. I think the "manned space flights" are tangential to what the immediate goals are. Hammering out the science to allow cheap cross earth flights, is simply incredible.
Sadly I'm not sure the bulk market is there. You used to be able to hop on a plane in London and land in New York 3 hours later. Now it takes over 7.
I could see a market for a charter - sometimes as a business you need someone to be somewhere, and it's costing you $100k/hour that they aren't there, but that would require a lot of planes to be in key places ready for immediate launch (NY, LA, London, Tokyo, Singapore)
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This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!
Assuming that you are being serious and not simply being snarky, the article isn't late. Well, at least not for the US audience.
You see, if you look up the release dates for Into Darkness, you will see that the movie was released in Europe first and had a later release here in the US. It was released in the UK on the 9th and was released here in the US yesterday.
How strange, an a nice reversal for a change :D
This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!
LOL True. It can't do that.
Anyhow... I'm THAT guy. The guy that smokes and doesn't actually think that legalizing it will solve all the world's problems. I'm in favor of legalization and think that it would help solve *some* problems however. It is legal for me to smoke and grow now but I still think it should be legalized and subject to reasonable taxation.
In case you're curious, I got my card because I have issues sleeping. I still have plenty of trouble sleeping but now I get to smoke weed legally. It hasn't helped though it does ease the paranoia to imbibe legally.
I figure it would help lower budgets and stop us from incarcerating people for that particular victimless crime.
I'm the guy that's never smoked, never will, and I find the very idea disgusting. However I'm all for it to be legalised (at home, in public -- like on the street or in parks, it should be banned along with tobacco)
I have problems sleeping too. It's called an 11 month old who's teething.
Pot. Is there anything it can't do? /might be a little high right now actually
It can't call the kettle black.
as there is no "caps lock on" indicator on my keyboard
Not a problem, I assume you've mapped caps lock to something useful. I have it as escape personally
keycode 66 = Escape NoSymbol Escape
!lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
clear lock
I understand WHY you should not do this, but quite frankly there is theory and there is practice. And in an era of long obtuse passwords I am thankful!
It's better when you work internationally. Our standard desktop admin password contains an @ sign. Which in most counties is shift-', but in the u.s. it's shift-2. It's not obvious which keyboard layout is in place (you also have to type user@domain, rather than domain\user, as \ doesn't exist as any key on the physical keyboard-mapping we have)
Password theory tells me that
Pa55word!
Is an awesome password. 9 characters, capital, lower case, numbers and symbols.
It also tells me that
thisismyverylongandeasytorememberpassword
is rubbish, (or to be exact, "really good, if you put in a random symbol numbers and capitalise some letters")
http://emphatious.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/warning-this-website-is-upside-down/
Your link states
The philosophy of a design should be to minimize the amount of time a user has to learn the interface and try to be as similar as possible to other interfaces the user has used previously to avoid getting mixed up from time to time.
OK, don't do anything new, copy other interfaces. Great
It then goes on to say:
Almost all websites are like this.
So what it's saying in the second statement is that the standard - new items first - is ubiquitous. The first statement it states this is good. I fail to see the problem.
"On May 3, attackers from the SEA fired off phishing emails to Onion employees, at least one of whom clicked on a malicious link"
What OS did this nameless malware run on?
Malware? What decade are you from?
Send an email with a link to tw1tter.com, they enter their password, you capture it. Job done. All that's needed is a browser.
I know you are kidding, but this actually happens to me all the time. Damn kids.
Did you tell them to get off your lawn?
I can whistle and get a sandwich, now that I'm married.
Sometimes I have to added "sudo" before it, though.
I whistle and get a bowl of bolognaise.
Tipped over my head.
If this device becomes a commodity found in every home, it will spawn a whole new generation of pranksters who will sneak up to houses and "hack" the lighting and appliances with a whistle. We'll wind up needing two-factor authentication for our whistle-houses.
Just like the problem of people waking around firing infrared through the window at your tv and changing the channel?
Really, we have hand held devices that can talk to another on the other side of a planet *without any infrastructure, not even an orbiting ship*?
How many rap lyrics *don't* contain statements that could be construed as a specific threat?
Will Smith
Are you seriously implying that touchscreen is the new, better method of input?
What exactly do you do on a computer? Im gonna guess its not
Or anything, really, that involves rapidly moving data from your brain onto a computer. Or does the new Lightning connector have that capability built into it?
I write code, and do system administration. Obviously I prefer my trusty thinkpad with linux on it, however when I get a phone call with a problem, I love the fact I can ssh in from my phone and restart apache or similar. I've gone as far as using vim to create perl. Once I even ran a debugger.
Obviously a PC is better than a laptop, a laptop is better than a tablet, and a tablet is better than a phone, however the chance of me having access to those devices is inversely proportional to how comfortable it is to use.
What's better, going home from the pub to log on to a 3-screened workstation with all the input you could possibly want, or quickly fixing a problem while your mate gets the next round in?
It is a common misconception from Techy Guys. They look at old technology with the blinding light of nostalgia. Often confusing equipment they bought 20 years ago that cost thousands of dollars and comparing them against their modern counterpart that cost a few hundred bucks.
I picked up an old thinkpad from the IBM era last week. It certainly feels more solid than the T410s I carry, and that feels more solid that the new T430.
It's a race to the bottom, and for those of us who upfront cost is less important lose out. I'd be happy to spend $3000 on a laptop, they're just not made any more.
Boston proved the when the chips are down, americans are a bunch of pussies.
No....Boston proved that Bostonians are a bunch of fucking pussies. Anyone who has ever met anyone from Boston, already knew this. The town is full of egotistical, arrogant dumbasses. Of course they cowered in fear, like the pants shitting cowards they are. If this had been Alabama the story would have different.
It's ironic. I grew up under constant attack by Boston-funded thugs, so perhaps I think a bloody nose is barely worth reporting, but when you get to a stage that a heavily armed force is on the streets, pointing guns in my kids bedroom, I do wonder where Paul Revere went to. One of by land, two if by sea, three is welcomed in with splayed legs.
Plenty of people in Boston are NRA members, they were cowering with the rest. If you can't defend yourself against one or two unorganised desperate fugitives, what change do you have against the local PD, let alone the army.
Homeland Security. I've always thought it sounded facist.
Yes of course it is. Sep 11th 2001 was the day america died. The fear that outsiders could actually harm you, something which hadn't happened for 60 years, got you all shitting your pants.
Your vaunted bill of rights was torn up, and you didn't bother using the 2nd amendment to ensure the rest of them remained. All it takes is the word "terror" and you have marshal law, the 4th amendment is thrown out.
Although effectually the TSA serves little to no purpose in actual deterrence, it may be left just to make people feel comfortable / safe. Tho I disagree with both having the TSA and theatrical aspects.
Generally the people that fly 50+ times a year are the ones that hate the TSA, the people that never fly, or maybe go once a year, are the ones that want "protecting" from the "terrorists".
Still what do you expect from land of the free home of the brainwashed?
Ironically how would armed drones have been sane to use in a busy metropolitan city to catch TWO people on foot. Maybe if they had hijacked a passenger less bus or vehicle and were on a stretch of the interstate by themselves, but then your still blowing up civil infrastructure for something a good o'le fashioned barricade would have made much more sense for.
Drones are a military technology for war fighting with limited use in the civil arena. The problems were having as a nation is conflating terrorism with military action.
Boston proved the when the chips are down, americans are a bunch of pussies.
Imagine what would happen if you didn't have a second amendment and a population who love their guns
"Please declare marshal law and put heavilly armed soldiers and tanks on the streets, I'm scared of a couple of guys on the run, please come into my house, don't mind the 4th amendment"
Oh wait.
Andoid is Linux
Funny how the definition of Linux oscillates between a full OS "distribution" and just the kernel, depending on what the person's trying to prove at the time.
I'm beginning to think RMS is right about one thing. The OS should be called GNU/Linux. Or maybe even that's understating it. If Linux with Android on top is called "Android". Linux with GNU on top should be called "GNU".
So, what nerds were using 20 years ago was GNU. And the mainstream still isn't using it.
Sure, but I have the following foreground processes running
Chrome
Firefox
Openoffice.org
rxvt
bash
eclipse
vim
fluxbox
I believe bash is the only Gnu program there. Sure the compiler may have been gnu, and the c-library gnu, but calling it "gnu/linux" ignores the work of everyone else that makes my computer useful.
"I'd take 51.1% total tax in a heartbeat to have really good government services."
Rejoice, you've found the answer! Move to Sweden.
Average temperature -17 degrees.
I thought it was a Futurama reference.
Indeed, I am a bit of a coin-o-seur.
It seems that the slashdot demographic isn't what it used to be.
No-one would notice the difference
The tweets were spelt correctly.
The SR-71 was deployed in 1964 and had an operational elevation limit of 80,0000ft. What excactly are we breaking out the champaign for?
It's Cham-pag-en
I think the "Space" part of it is a side show to what Virgin is really pushing for.
The bigger goal, IMO is being able to enable flight from the US/Europe to Australia in a matter of hours by a "plane" jumping into low Earth orbit and circling the globe in 2 hours. Imagine being able to "jump" to the other side of the Earth in an 1 hour? A 2 hour flight to China? Australia? Europe?
It takes 88 minutes in LOE to circle the globe.
It would simply be revolutionary. IMO that is the near term end goal of Branson's interest in space flight. I think the "manned space flights" are tangential to what the immediate goals are. Hammering out the science to allow cheap cross earth flights, is simply incredible.
Sadly I'm not sure the bulk market is there. You used to be able to hop on a plane in London and land in New York 3 hours later. Now it takes over 7.
I could see a market for a charter - sometimes as a business you need someone to be somewhere, and it's costing you $100k/hour that they aren't there, but that would require a lot of planes to be in key places ready for immediate launch (NY, LA, London, Tokyo, Singapore)